Get yourselves into cinemas this week! Take your kids. Take your partners. Take your friends. I promise there will be no cartoon springs or ejector seats. This is much more than a fantastic film, it’s about voting with your feet against the shelving of great media.

Einbinder is spellbinding. Anderson is electric. The laughs feel like a hug, and the horror easter eggs like a treasure hunt. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is undoubtedly one of the best horrors you will see this year.

If you’re a fan of the first two Scary Movies, you’ll have a great time with this one too. It’s fun, it’s silly, and it perhaps reminds us of a simpler time.

Rehashing a tried-and-tested IP is a tale as old as time, but he manages to rehash, and slash, and bite, and slice, and squelch his way to something simultaneously fresh and rotten.

The most infamous ‘Final Girl’ is back on our screens for a slasher flick that knows when to scream and when to laugh.

What The Rip does so well, and where plenty of modern action films fall short, is that it douses the movie in so much character, a sniffer dog would blow its balls off.

In this conversation, the Film Focus Online team delve into their favourite films of 2025. They explore the performances of actors, the direction styles of filmmakers, and the emotional impact of various films. The discussion also touches on anticipated future releases and the disappointments of the year, providing a comprehensive overview of the current film landscape.

Run, don’t walk, to see the latest Stephen King adaptation on the big screen. While it may fall ever so slightly short of Wright’s sharp, satirical best, The Running Man remains one of the action highlights of 2025, with plenty to say about modern society and the dark hole we risk tumbling down. Much like Squid Game, The Hunger Games, and even The Long Walk, the concept of entertainment-as-control should serve as a stark warning to us all.

Roofman will make you laugh, make you gasp, and it just might make you cry, too.

Good Boy refuses to follow the norm and produces a truly unique horror story within such a congested genre - a trailblazing testament of what can be done with a small budget and a fantastic concept.

The Conjuring: Last Rites is an enjoyable – yet horrific - trip down memory lane for fans of the warrens, but the climax perhaps falls into the scariest category of all – samey.

If you are looking for a smorgasbord of sharp British humour, toxic marital arguments, and intrusive thoughts winning the day – this is the film for you.

Proving that horror is well and truly back, and combined with an electric Cregger script, Weapons is set to fast become a genre classic – with a twist.

F1: The Movie knows what it is – a chaotic, action-packed, at times ludicrous glimpse into one of the world’s most eccentric pastimes.

Danny Boyle and Alex Garland reunite 23 years after their hit, genre-defining cult classic 28 Days Later to deliver one of the greatest horror sequels of all time.

Jai Courtney stars as a shark-obsessed serial killer in one of the surprise survival horror flicks of 2025.

If you are looking for a perfect way to kill two hours with a film that leaves blood up the walls and a smile on your face – Another Simple Favour does the trick.

Opus works as a fun mystery thriller, but we can’t help but feel it could have been so much more.

Taking advantage of cartoonish gore, outlandish deaths, and a rag-tag cast of household names, The Monkey is sure to have audiences clapping

Anthony Mackie and Harrison Ford shine but the latest Captain America outing is neither brave nor new nor world-shattering.